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...jazz joint in the Capitol Hill district of Washington, D.C. Her toughest adjustment was to the audiences, who were literally a far cry from politely attentive classical listeners. "Can we have a little quiet at Table Five, please?" Roberta would call out hopefully. Sometimes she would flee to her dressing room, vowing tearfully not to return to the bandstand until the clatter subsided. "I'd tell her to go on back out," recalls Wilkerson. " 'Some day they'll listen...
Most men of culture and science wore blinders. When the Nazis eventually forced Conductor Bruno Walter to flee Germany in 1933, he was nonplused: Why him? "I had never taken an active part in politics." In his Reflections of a Non-Political Man, written in 1918, Thomas Mann proclaimed that he was unpolitical and proud of it. He changed his mind later. The pit of politics was left to ambitious drones or dregs. In the end it was a couple of wellborn smart-alecks, General Kurt von Schleicher and ex-Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, both conservatives, both of good...
...appropriate, at all levels of the decision-making and war-waging process but might also recommend a "general amnesty" for all: for Presidents, their civilian advisers, and their military officials from general down through the ranks, and also for those whose consciences caused them to choose jail or to flee the country, rather than serve in the Vietnam...
Nkrumah's despotic ruling style aroused so much resentment that after a coup in 1966 he had to flee to Guinea for asylum. When it became apparent last month that he was near death after a long bout with cancer, Guinea's President Sekou Toure pleaded with the Ghana government to let the deposed leader come home to die. Most sentimental Ghanaians seemed willing, but the country's military rulers remained adamant. Only after his death did they relent and order flags lowered to half-mast before burying Nkrumah in his homeland...
...great man who had every chance to reach the greatest height of human achievement," said Komla Gbedemah, who had built Nkrumah's party, then had to flee to escape imprisonment. "But halfway along the road he allowed bad advice and his own personal love for absolute power to corrupt him. The deprivations and sufferings he went through should be enough penance for the mistakes and sins he committed while ruling Ghana...